Dataquest of Gartner Group announced the final survey results of the world semiconductor market on April 6, local time.

Total sales in the semiconductor market in 1999 increased by 22 percent over 1998 to $168.6 billion.

According to the survey, the expansion of communication networks, including the Internet, will lead to the development of DSPs and optical semiconductors.

——— Engadget (Fast News) 3/28/00 in New York.

The Semiconductor Industry Association recently pointed out that the global semiconductor industry is expected to grow by 26% this year after years of downturn, with sales reaching $212.4 billion. According to the association, the growth of the semiconductor market has been driven by rising sales of PCs and Inte access devices, as well as the growth of e-commerce.

——— Computer World March 00.

According to a recent survey, as of April this year, global semiconductor sales were 61 billion US dollars, an increase of 19.3% over the same period last year. The fastest-growing region continued to be the Asia-Pacific region, where sales increased by 29 percent.

- European Times, March 00.

At 9 o'clock local time, Infinity released their first product, the "Dimensity One", which uses Intel's 32-bit instruction set and is perfectly compatible with all software on the market.

The most noteworthy thing is that their manufacturing process has reached 150 nanometers, ahead of Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and other established semiconductor manufacturing companies.

Relevant sources said: The emergence of the chip is very likely to have a huge impact on the world semiconductor market.

As of press time, Infinity's stock price rose 82.6%, and the Hang Seng Index surged more than 7%.

——— Wall Street Journal, April 6.

On April 7, it was reported that Intel CEO Craig Barrett arrived in California on a special plane and will discuss with Qualcomm and AMD executives the increasingly complex industry situation of the world's semiconductors.

It is reported that Intel is expected to launch the strongest processor Pentium 4 in September this year, and intends to hand over the graphics chip of the processor to TSMC's 158n process foundry.

It is worth mentioning.

Due to Infinity's "Dimensity One" processor, there is a huge improvement over the PC chips on the market, which makes Intel feel the pressure.

Therefore, there are quite a few predictions that they will most likely release the Pentium 4 processor ahead of schedule.

——— Reuters.

Wall Street, New York.

Rockefeller – Capital Management Division.

Jack sat in his private office, took a sip of coffee, and then stared at the stock chart on his computer with a frown, lost in thought.

Since Infinity released its self-developed "Dimensity" processor, their share price has soared by 82.6% overnight, from HK$126 per share to HK$230.07.

According to the closing price, their market capitalization has also reached a terrifying more than 560 billion Hong Kong dollars.

As early as a few years ago, because of sniping at the Xiangjiang stock market, they bought a large number of shares of Infinity at an average price of 85 Hong Kong dollars, and even held 4.76% of the shares.

Their original intention was to use these chips to sell and suppress the Hang Seng Index at the right opportunity to make huge profits.

Because Infinity Inc. is also one of the Hang Seng shares.

However, due to various reasons, coupled with the increasing improvement of Hong Kong's financial system, they simply could not find a suitable opportunity to realize this plan.

Now two years have passed, and the floating profit of the stocks they hold in their hands has been close to 300%, which has to be said that this is a very shocking yield!

Far surpassing Warren Buffett, investing in Coca-Cola with an annualized rate of return of 29%.

And the 4.76% of the stock they hold is now worth about $3.5 billion, which is a huge amount of money on Wall Street!

Jack thought for a moment, and finally decided to report the matter to the helm of the Rockefeller consortium, John Rockefeller Jr.

Because as a Wall Street investment manager, he instinctively thinks that infinity companies are now

The stock price is already very high.

They have a lot of uncertainty about the future of this company.

Because the three giants of American semiconductors will never let them go to the chip market, and will even use all their resources to comprehensively suppress this company.

And whether they can withstand this pressure, or rather, their chips, is it a flash in the pan....

It's hard to say.

Whether to sell the stocks in their hands has become a difficult question for them to decide.

However, Jack is not the only one who is also troubled by this problem.

Morgan, First Citigroup, Boston Consortium.... The eight major Wall Street investment institutions that participated in short-selling back then all held shares of Infinity companies to a greater or lesser extent.

I wanted to buy some stocks to short, but two years later, the company's stock has risen nearly threefold, which has become a lot of additional income.

Anyone who encounters this kind of thing will be extremely depressed.

Even Soros himself, after learning the news, remained silent for a long time, because they also hold 1.7% of the stock.

Infinity's share price has skyrocketed, causing the quantum fund's yields to rise sharply this year.

I really don't know if I should thank them or continue to scold....

The other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Chen Weidong didn't know that there was a group of people on Wall Street who were "worried" about them, and even cared more about the company's development than themselves.

At this time, they are busy setting up a full set of automated production lines, striving to achieve mass production of chips as soon as possible.

The difficulty is very high.

Because there are many chip manufacturing processes, including design, R&D, production, packaging and testing, of which chip manufacturing alone requires 5,000 processes, involving more than 50 industries.

This is quite difficult for China, which has a weak basic industry, to produce in large quantities.

This is completely different from making a sample in the laboratory.

For others, it may be helpless, but the industrial level of Infinity Company, if it is said to be the first in China, absolutely no one dares to say second.

A large number of factories in their park, and even some factories in the surrounding area, belong to the manufacturing department.

It is also one of the largest divisions of the company.

It is established in cooperation with the Institute of Precision Research and the Academy of Engineering, and it is a real productivity!

The whole department has four levels: rough machining, fine machining, fine machining, special processing, and each level has a different level of confidentiality.

The simplest rough processing, the largest number of technicians, more than 300 people.

Their movement is generally unrestricted, and they usually work in factories on the outskirts of the park and can go home after work.

There are more than 100 people in the finishing process, and they can only live in the factory area, and generally cannot leave casually, and they need to submit an application report and go home after approval.

As for fine processing and special processing, a high degree of secrecy is implemented, and there are a total of 52 people, all of whom are senior technicians.

With such a small number of people, it is very difficult to complete all kinds of ultra-high-precision samples sent by the R&D department, and it is all up to the precision machine tools they bring back from the island country to make samples that satisfy the R&D department.

The emphasis on automated production lines is not mass production capacity, but to ensure the highest quality possible.

The rest is production line planning, design issues.

But with dozens of engineers involved, there must be no need to worry too much.

Because of the release of "Dimensity No. 1", Infinity Company also deserves to become the first high-tech company in China.

Director Zhang also strongly supported and used all the network resources to help them solve various problems, and what talents were lacking were directly seconded from other research institutes.

If you need to approve any documents, expedited processing will be expedited immediately.

All this is done as an important task, just to achieve mass production and commercialization of chips before Intel releases the Pentium 4!

However, just when they were busy, one person panicked.

Chapter 211: Soaring yields